While over the years I've come to the same conclusion that Von Balthasar has--that there is an overwhelming need for the primacy in the Church and that it is in fact given to the Church by God--I'd think it safer, if even less "conclusive" an argument, to simply argue on the basis of the development of doctrine and the leading of the Spirit. An historical argument, I think, would be stronger if made on Jesus' commands for our unity and by examining what seems to be to be the overall failure of the Protestant principle in Protestantism's ongoing fracturing.
Theology Notebook
While over the years I've come to the same conclusion that Von Balthasar has--that there is an overwhelming need for the primacy in the Church and that it is in fact given to the Church by God--I'd think it safer, if even less "conclusive" an argument, to simply argue on the basis of the development of doctrine and the leading of the Spirit. An historical argument, I think, would be stronger if made on Jesus' commands for our unity and by examining what seems to be to be the overall failure of the Protestant principle in Protestantism's ongoing fracturing.
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